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could make them. Far different, however, was it with some other 
branches of the ‘Natural History of Yarmouth,’ which were 
singularly neglected ; of the Fish, they say, all there mentioned had 
been “ met with by the merest accident,” and yet they indicate 
the very means, by a partial employment of which, under 
circumstances of great difficulty, a zealous member of our Society 
has been enabled greatly to extend the list. They also lament, as 
we do in the present day, that the study of the Mollusca and 
Crustacea should remain a “wide and unbeaten field of interest.” 
Yarmouth naturalists have the greatest reason to be proud of the 
work so efficiently performed by those two ardent and devoted 
young men, and to be thankful for the legacy thus left to their 
successors. 
Differing greatly in style, but even more valuable in some respects, 
are the ‘ Observations on the Fauna of Norfolk, more particularly 
on the District of the Broads,’ by the Rev. Richard Lubbock, 
which appeared in 1S45. Lubbock was not a Yarmouth man, but, 
like Whitear, he was so thoroughly associated with the Yarmouth 
men of the period, and so much of his time was spent on the 
Broads and Marshes in the Yarmouth district, that any record of 
the progress of ornithology in that neighbourhood would be 
incomplete without mention of his name. For nearly fifty years 
Lubbock’s book has stood the test of time, and it is as fresh as on 
the day it was Avritten ; breathing of the open air, instinct with 
the true spirit of the sportsman and naturalist, it carries us into the 
field, and Ave seem to realise once more the teeming abundance of 
life which characterised the Broad district in the early days of the 
century. The Pagets in their introduction, and Lubbock in his 
charming book have filled in to some extent the details of the 
picture, which the stray observations of those whom 1 have men- 
tioned earlier must have called to our mind’s eye, and Avhich, alas ! 
will never again be presented to our bodily vision. It is pleasant 
to follow the dear old Rector of Eccles into the marsh Avith his 
gun, and trusty retriever, to flush the Bittern from the reed bed, or 
bring to bag the erratic Snipe, while the Moor Buzzard Avaits on 
and boldly claims its share of the sport; or to listen to his Liles of 
